Word: circularity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhibiting the photograph Following the Master (see cut), "despite protests from all over Britain." The Mail charged that "1) it offends the religious susceptibilities of Christian people . . .; 2) the way the saw is being operated conflicts with all the modern rules of safe carpentry; 3) there were no circular saws in New Testament days...
...blonde's shapely body was pushed slowly against the whirring circular saw. In the orchestra pit, the musicians shielded their instruments and cowered under sheets of butcher paper. The saw ripped menacingly through the girl's clothes, bit into her midriff, began to spew what looked exactly like blood and entrails all over the stage and into the audience. Women shrieked and fainted. Finally, with the blonde all too realistically sawed in half, Argentine Illusionist Richiardi Jr. invited the spectators up for a closer look. Hundreds trooped onstage, stared at the gory shambles and the blonde (still intact...
...first glance, the investment circular looked like a joke. "Amazing sale!" it said. "Up to 60% off original prices." But Manhattan's First Colony Corp.'s circular was no gag. It was simply an eye-catching way, usually frowned on by Wall Street, to get the public interested in buying stocks selling at far less than their book value. Said First Colony President J. G. Sittig: "The market needs a shot...
...often on the thin side, but last week the evening brought out 7,622 croon fans, come to listen to a voice that one of its admirers once described as having "the virility of a goat and the delicacy of a flower petal." They sat patiently on the huge, circular dance floor through the preliminary stuff-Ike Carpenter's band, the Bobby True Trio, but when the main event came on they howled with delight. And when 35-year-old, toupee-topped Crooner Frankie Laine finally let them have what they wanted -his bobbing, bouncing Rosetta...
There was no time to waste. His new world was ready for use. Thrusting his Holiday under his arm and picking up his Spring Activities Circular, or Catalogue as it was called, Vag started toward the Yard. The day was warm and several couples were lounging on the steps of Emerson; strange the management had forgotten the deck chairs that morning. Vag shook his head reproachfully and looked through the Circular to see what was doing at 11:00. So many interesting things; the management was doing its best to keep everybody occupied. He picked out an activity meeting...